TY - JOUR
T1 - Cerebellar metastasis as a unique presenting feature of gastric cancer
AU - Perri, Francesco
AU - Bisceglia, Michele
AU - Giannatempo, Giuseppe Maria
AU - Andriulli, Angelo
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Gastric cancer is often diagnosed in middle-aged patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for abdominal complaints or constitutional symptoms, such as dyspepsia, vomiting or anorexia, weight loss, anemia, jaundice, and ascites. Sometimes, all of these symptoms may be absent, and gastric cancer is diagnosed after detection of metastases to target organs, such as the liver or lung. In a few rare cases, however, even these metastatic localizations may be absent, and clinical signs are only represented by atypical symptoms caused by neurologic metastatic involvement. We report an exceptionally rare case of gastric cancer in which the only presenting symptoms were headache and dizziness caused by a single cerebellar metastasis.
AB - Gastric cancer is often diagnosed in middle-aged patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for abdominal complaints or constitutional symptoms, such as dyspepsia, vomiting or anorexia, weight loss, anemia, jaundice, and ascites. Sometimes, all of these symptoms may be absent, and gastric cancer is diagnosed after detection of metastases to target organs, such as the liver or lung. In a few rare cases, however, even these metastatic localizations may be absent, and clinical signs are only represented by atypical symptoms caused by neurologic metastatic involvement. We report an exceptionally rare case of gastric cancer in which the only presenting symptoms were headache and dizziness caused by a single cerebellar metastasis.
KW - Cerebellar metastasis
KW - Diagnosis
KW - Gastric cancer
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U2 - 10.1097/00004836-200107000-00021
DO - 10.1097/00004836-200107000-00021
M3 - Article
C2 - 11418800
AN - SCOPUS:0034964187
VL - 33
SP - 80
EP - 81
JO - Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
JF - Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
SN - 0192-0790
IS - 1
ER -